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ALBANY – To a billionaire like him, it may be pocket change, but Mayor Bloomberg collected nearly $76,000 this year in unclaimed funds from the state Comptroller’s Office, The Post has learned.

The state cut the mayor a check for $75,900 in August, according to the Comptrol ler’s Office.

A Bloomberg spokesman said that before the mogul became mayor, he owned shares in a publicly traded company that was bought out by stockholders. But the check sent to the mayor instead ended up in the Comptroller’s Office’s unclaimed-money fund. He retrieved the funds over the summer.

The spokesman wouldn’t identify the company but said the transaction took place “long before the mayor was contemplating running for mayor.”

Meanwhile, more than $8 billion – belonging to 22 million accounts – remains in the state’s unclaimed-money funds.

And while $75,900 may seem high, the largest amount paid out by the fund so far has been $5.9 million, to the heirs of an unidentified estate in 2005.

As for the largest sum yet to be claimed, that, according to the Comptroller’s Office, is a cool $1.7 million.